A large archive of emails and files from the Climate Research Unit in the UK was released on the internet in November 2009. The emails show a group of scientists manipulated, hid or misrepresented data and evidence in official reports. Five inquiries were commissioned to investigate. The inquiries failed to interview critics, cross-examine evidence, and investigate the key issues. This article summarizes the key issues and the inquiries.

The ClimateGate emails show a group of climate scientists manipulating climate data, hiding data that did not support their cause, illegally avoiding Freedom of Information laws, and blocking scientific papers. A UK House of Commons committee, instead of protecting the public from fraud, declares Phil Jones "actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community".

It has happened. Again!
A second instalment of incriminating correspondence files from the CRU/ East Anglia Hockey Team and their IPCC colleagues has just been leaked (Nov.22), (in)conveniently in time for the COP-17 Durban conference. Here are some samplings from the collection of >5000 e-mails. The emails confirm that the IPCC scientists are not objectively reporting climate science.

Mohib Ebrahim has created the full timeline of ClimateGate, laying out the analysis, graphs, emails and history of the scandal. The scandal reveals: that scientists conspired to prevent publication of papers skeptical of AGW, and journals and editors that published such papers were punished; that they manipulated data to support the AGW theory and suppress data that does not support the theory; and that they conspired to prevent data from being made available to other researches.